Sektionsveranstaltungen der @theoriesektiondgs.bsky.social auf dem Duisburger Kongress #dgs2025 der @dgsoziologie.bsky.social:

Love to give this guy control over a video streaming platform www.404media.co/larry-elliso...

Toller Eröffnungsvortrag von der @dgsoziologie.bsky.social Vorsitzenden Monika Wohlrab-Sahr. Gleich ein Einstieg mit Appell für kollegiales und integratives Verhalten in der DGS (Stichwort Akademie). Anschließend klare Worte zu den Herausforderungen der Zeit – und der Soziologie. #DGS2025

Dann einigen wir uns auf #dgs2025 !

“The problem is that our rules assume technology is either a product (regulated for physical safety), a service (regulated for speech), or an app (governed through platforms). Embodied AI is all three, but no single regulatory agency or statute can oversee the full picture,” writes Matt Steinberg.

Das ist der Content, wegen dessen ich bei akademischen Tagungen aufs Handy gucken will.

Das einzige was mir ja wirklich nach wie vor vor fehlt nach Twitter™️, ist das Begleiten von Tagungen — von Vortragsnotizen bis trash talk. Erste kurze Recherche in der Bluesky-Suchleiste ergab eher wenig Hoffnung?! #dgs2025 #dgs25 #soziologie #duisburg

In August 2025, Germany installed 1.95 GW of solar power, the second highest monthly installations ever ☀️🇩🇪 Only December 2024 (1.98 GW) was higher. This also brought Germany's installation rate back above the targeted rate of 1.62 GW a month needed to achieve its own 2030 solar installation goal.

HU-Doktorandin @anjaklein.bsky.social hat gemeinsam mit Kolleg*innen der Humboldt-Uni, des Potsdam-Instituts für Klimafolgenforschung und des Stockholm Resilience Centres einen Leitfaden für eine reflektiertere Nutzung und Entwicklung von Computermodellen erarbeitet. www.hu-berlin.de/de/pr/nachri...

Christian Geyer hat in der FAZ den Vulnerabilitätsschwerpunkt von Stephan Lessenich und mir im WestEnd rezensiert. Für alls, die sich für dieses Thema interessieren, eine Lektüreempfehlung. Vielen Dank. @ifsfrankfurt.bsky.social @nomosverlag.bsky.social @jgovrin.bsky.social @faznet.bsky.social

A new study provides the first evidence that relying on AI might erode a doctor’s ability to perform fundamental skills without the technology. “This is a two-way process....We give AI inputs that affect its output, but it also seems to affect our behavior as well.” www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/w...

The difference between the text of the post and the headline of the article below it is staggering

Im @futurehistories.bsky.social Podcast gab es eine Folge zu "Climate Counteraesthetics" mit @annakornbluh.bsky.social. Darin geht es um inspirierende Zukunftsvisionen jenseits von Verlusten und zu bringenden Opfern. www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...

Thank you @joshgabbatiss.bsky.social for the reminder that golf courses should be forcibly seized by the government and converted to solar farms interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/so...

Hessen setzt als erstes Bundesland Live-Gesichtserkennung ein. Die Gesichter der Passant*innen im Bahnhofsviertel von Frankfurt/Main werden von KI analysiert und mit Fotos gesuchter Personen abgeglichen. Das zugrundeliegende Gesetz erlaubt noch viel mehr. netzpolitik.org/2025/als-ers...

#Proprietarismus in Deutschland Mein Überblicksartikel ist endlich bei Belltower News erschienen. Dass sich die Fertigstellung so lange hinzog, hatte den Vorteil, dass ich jüngste Entwicklung (Hoppe / Cotar) mit aufnehmen konnte. www.belltower.news/gegenaufklae...

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

On August 23, 1989, about 2 million people from Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania formed a 600 km long human chain that united all 3 countries to show the world their desire to leave the Soviet Union and Communism.

One of the reasons the AI bubble has taken Silicon Valley by storm is that it feeds into this myth that all an engineer bro needs to solve a problem is some surface-level knowledge of it. These people can ask ChatGPT to give them an error-ridden primer and claim to have done their due diligence 🧵

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

Ausgezeichnete erste Rezension unserer Eigentum Sammelband! www.suhrkamp.de/buch/umkaemp...

Ich hatte das Privileg, eine frühe Fassung dieses wunderbaren und thesenstarken Essays lesen zu dürfen – und bin sehr gespannt auf das fertige Buch! Eine absolut unverzichtbare Lektüre für alle, die sich fragen, welche Rolle das Lesen in Zeiten digitaler Plattformen und generativer KI (noch) spielt

the ai-powered pdf is a harbinger of doom www.wired.com/story/adobe-...

Incisive. This kind of stunting is popular among online trolls, who see it as the only way to get attention to their ideas.

New: My deep dive into the business of AI slop. wapo.st/4mFECxC

So it turns out the most advanced AI systems that people fear/hope are “becoming human” are actually a lot more pigeon-like than human-like?!It’s maybe time we reconsider the much-maligned bird. Brilliant from @bencrair.bsky.social. @technologyreview.com www.technologyreview.com/2025/08/18/1...

The African Union has backed a campaign to end the use by governments and international organizations of the 16th-century Mercator map of the world in favor of one that more accurately displays Africa’s size.

Großartiger Text von Till Raether über die Zumutungen der KI Diese ganzen Chatbots in Google, Social Media, Microsoft Office & sonstwo machen mich mittlerweile richtig aggressiv Ich will keine mit ChatGPT generierten Mails, WhatsApp-Nachrichten, Zeitungsartikel od. studentische Hausarbeiten lesen

A consultation on specific legal safeguards for use of facial recognition in England & Wales is promised but an expansion of its use comes first. Unsurprisingly, another legal challenge to its use is forthcoming. This time concerning the MET police: www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4wy21dwkwo

I wrote an article about linguistic bias and the internet for the BBC, based on a paper @ze.vin, @ethanz.bsky.social, and I wrote comparing four language-specific samples of YouTube. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

In light of the passing of STS luminary Michel Callon, we have arranged for his landmark 1994 article "Is Science a Public Good?" to be available for free access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Das ist einfach niederschmetternd. #Klimakatastrophe www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Via @gedsperber.bsky.social .

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Your Wi-Fi Can Now See You—Even Through Walls. WhoFi, the AI-powered tech tracking humans, no cameras required. This isn’t sci-fi. It’s science. cybersecuritynews.com/new-ai-power... #AI #SurveillanceTech #WiFiBiometrics #PrivacyMatters #WhoFi #SmartTech #Innovation #Insurtech #RiskManagement

#whofi: It is now possible to track people based on how their bodies (without devices!) block wifi signals https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/22/whofi_wifi_identifier/ Preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12869v1

"Asked to generate intervention plans for struggling students, AI teacher assistants recommended more-punitive measures for hypothetical students with Black-coded names and more supportive approaches for students the platforms perceived as white" www.chalkbeat.org/2025/08/06/a...

And read more about the study at Civics of Technology:

Silicon Valley is all in on the Eliza Effect

My philosophy and experience with students is that they can almost always do incredibly difficult work, but if you ever waste their time with soul-killing meaningless work, you have essentially poisoned the well when it comes to getting them to spend any additional effort on your class.

Elon Musk brutally laying off 80% of Twitter’s staff and the site not falling over was a watershed moment in tech that changed the trajectory of the industry.

There is a reason I spend way more of my transportation classes on history, sociology, and social psychology than I do on design guides and equations.

…hier gibt es nun auch das Video für alle, die nicht dabei waren oder sie nochmals nachhören möchten: videoportal.uni-freiburg.de/video/lehren...

“Local, state & federal agencies are investigating a cyberattack against the City of St Paul. Gov Walz on Tues announced he activated the Minnesota National Guard [saying] ‘the magnitude & complexity of the cybersecurity incident have exceeded the city’s response capacity’” kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

Call for Papers: Let’s talk about data. Datenpraktiken und -konzepte qualitativer/ethnographischer Forschung im Horizont neuer Datendiskurse #cfp #soziologie

Hybrid workshop where you can hear from Lucy Suchman, HCI legend and organizer with Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, the amazing Joan Greenbaum with Computer People for Peace, and other awesome organizers from #notechforapartheid and other tech-ademia organizing efforts

Über Palantir Chef Karp

Great piece on #slopaganda: «Whether it's a self-assured small social media account … or, indeed, a department of the US government, the viewing public isn't the only target of this new form of propaganda. In this manner, the creator also experiences the same reassurance from interactions online.»

@schroep.bsky.social hat über den *Leitfaden Partizipation in der Forschung* im Podcast #52 gesprochen! Ganz spannend, die wissenschaftspolitische Metaebene war auch Thema. Hier entlang ▶️ open.spotify.com/episode/4pQu...